Ubisoft Explains the Watch Dogs Delay: Wasn’t due to GTAV, Game has Been in Development for 5 Years

With the news now out that Watch Dogs will be delayed to Spring 2014 on every system, some people are wondering what happened to make such a big delay happen so close to the originally planned release date (one month from now). - PSLS

Shouldn't have made it for CURRENT GEN :@. They need to SHUT UP about this game being NEXT GEN, Yes it's on Next gen hardware BUT it's on what will be 9 year old hardware as well. If you're making the first truly next gen game, you do it on those consoles only (and PC if you wish).

Even if they had fully made it for next gen only, I think Ubisoft still would have delayed it. Possibly Ubisoft didn't want it eating AC4 sales.

5 months apart you can safely launch another game without it affecting the previous game. Though if that was the case what about Farcry 3 and AC3 both were launch almost a month apart.

Then there's the rumor a few months ago that possibly could apply to this situation. Maybe Microsoft do have a policy which states the XB1 version must the same as the PS4 version and can't be inferior to it. Though if that was true Ubisoft wouldn't have waited till the last minute to delay the game.

Nah, they could have had the 100's of staff working on the 3 other ports working on it to polish it, I don't really feel that they want the delay (hoping it comes out sooner than 5 months late). They'd have already decided a LONG time ago if they wanted a break between this and AC4 bud and wouldn't have given us a 15/11 (as the US were to get it) date. Like you said with the Xbone theory, why wait a month? I think this is a genuine issue.......But W_D's not this truly next gen game because it's catering nearly decade old hardware.

ac4 would never sell for more than 2-3 weeks. and this polish thing is bs.nobody after 5 years and weeks from release realizes the game needs more polish. it should of been going gold by now considering it was bundeled with a next gen launch

Microsoft & Sony both have policies & have done since the beginning of this gen that if the game releases later on their system then it has to have extra content added.

My guess is that as of 3-5 weeks ago Xbone reportedly didn't have working dev drivers & tools & as PS4 already has 1 hour of extra licenced content they've had to hold both back so XBone can catch up so it's an equal par for release of their standard edition as it would have to get delayed either way.

@1nsomniac: MS' policies are documented, do you have documents that show Sony has a "you can't make the game inferior on the PS platform or else" policy? Because Bayonetta and a host of other games says hi.

ok games are made on pc on the bases of hardware that is present at that time ,years back only they decided to make a game which will require great hardware ,only they know was that at that time they may can see next gen console,there are no next gen PCs even hardware present 5 years back were more powerful than ps4 and xbox one .only their target was to mqake a game with higher requirements so that they can also release on next gen ,and watch dogs basic and leading device is pc only game will feel best on pc they have already stated that.

5 years in development? You shouldn't need to delay a game after that long. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We're talking about GTA. A series that has been around for so long and has built up such a huge fanbase. You're releasing a new IP. Which one do you think is gonna get more hype?

Sorry Ubi but you lost a lot of respect on my opinion, you don´t delay a game 1 month before launch, if your game was not ready or you didn't want to cempete against other title you could have anounce this 6 months ago, hell even 3 months ago

The game is probably not finished, we have seen virtually nothing . It sucks, this was the only game that would have persuaded me to buy a PS4. I must say between the shooters and sports franchises releasing at launch, both consoles have a Meh line-up, there is really no need to own an PS4/XBOX1 till spring.

5 years? lol whut 5 years seems to be the magic number for the creative process to happen weird.. wonder whats really wrong with it?games in development for 5 years then they pull it back a little under 5 weeks from launch and delay it for another 5 months to polish it? weird

If they're delaying it because the game isn't living up to their expectations we're better off waiting. I honestly don't want to play a game that had potential, but wasn't fully realized. There are too many potentially good games that fall into that pit of disappointment.